1syllable
serves
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Definitions ofserves
1noun
- An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
Example: "Whose serve is it?"
- A portion of food or drink, a serving.
1verb
- (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
- To treat (someone) in a given manner.
- To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
- To be effective.
- To deliver a document.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To be in military service.
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To perform (a public obligation).
Example: "I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial."
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
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